For those of you in need of a Saturday quick pick, try this hot West Coast contest on for size:
Stanford (1-1) at San Diego State (2-0):
For a little background on this game, I think we should to the Annales school of French historical writing. The best guide to that style of historical practice is Peter Burke’s The French Historical Revolution. La nouvelle histoire, particularly the work of the scholars associated with Annales d’histoire économique et sociale, produced a “remarkable amount of the most innovative, the most memorable, and the most significant historical writing of the twentieth century,” Peter Burke asserts in the introduction to his historical survey of the Annales school, The French Historical Revolution.